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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 104

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  1. 10
  2. But il the impressions follou onc anocher (o quickl
  3. that ther cannot be severally perceired, there ariseth
  4. out ot them ail one common sentation, Wrhich is net
  5. ther oF this Colour alone nor ofthat alone, but hath it
  6. selF indifferentlr to em aIl, and this is a sensation ob
  7. arhiteness. By the quickness ot the succestions the im
  8. prections ofthe sereral Colours are contounded in FhC
  9. Senlorium, and ont ot that contntion arileth a mixt sen-
  10. Cation. IF a burnino Coal benimbly moved round in a
  11. Circle rith Crrations continually repeated, the irhole
  12. Circle will appear liketire; the realon ot wrtrich is, that
  13. the sensation oF the Coal in the several places oF that
  14. Circle remains imprest on the sensorium, until the
  15. Coat return again to the same place. And (0 in a
  16. quick consecution of the Colours the imprection ot every
  17. Colour remains in the Senlorium, until a rerolution ot
  18. alt the Colours De compleated, and FhaL AEC COIOUE re-
  19. turnagain. Theimpressions cheretoreot all the successire
  20. Colours are at once in thesentorium, and joynelr sir up
  21. a senlation of them alI; and lo it is manitest by this F X
  22. periment, that the commixe impreltions oF aII the CO-
  23. Jours do cir up and Deget a senlation ot irhite, thac 15,
  24. that erhiteness is compounded ot aII the COlOurS.
  25. And if the Comb De non taken arrar, chat all the
  26. Colours mar at once pals from the Lens to the Papei
  27. and be there intermixed, and tosether retlected thence
  28. to the Spectators Lyes; their imprections on the Senlo.
  29. rium beins nor more subtily and perfectlr commixed
  30. chere, ought much more toltir up a senlation ofihite
  31. NClS.
  32. du

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 104. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0124?run=74